Ltte Prabhakaran

A "mafia gang" which wants to use Prabhakaran as a "brand name", collects funds from Tamils living around the world is operating at a major scale, said Karthic Manoharan, the son of Prabhakaran's elder brother Velupillai Manoharan.

Sri Lanka on Monday dismissed as a "joke" a top Tamil nationalist leader's claim that LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, who was killed in 2009 by the island nation's military, was still alive.

His remark came after Tamil Nationalist Movement leader Pazha Nedumaran claimed on Monday that Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader KS Alagiri is alive.

Fourteen years after the Sri Lankan government declared LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran dead, former politician in Tamil Nadu Pazha Nedumaran today claimed that he is alive and healthy, and that he will soon make a public appearance.

"It wasn't directed at any person dead or alive as our disclaimer mentions in the beginning of the film," Dulquer Salmaan's' statement read

Seven persons, including a former councillor, were arrested on Monday in Sri Lanka for planning to publicly commemorate killed LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran's 64th birth anniversary, police said.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said he and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were not happy after the terror group LTTE's chief Prabhakaran, who ordered the assassination of his father Rajiv Gandhi, was killed, as they felt "the violence inflicted upon him had impacted others, including his children".

With some Tamil nationalists in Sri Lanka believing that Velupillai Prabhakaran may still be alive, a Tamil National Alliance leader has said the LTTE supremo's name could be reported to the newly setup Office of the Missing Persons (OMP).

A relative of LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran has entered the fray for Sri Lanka's parliamentary election to be held in August 17 to challenge former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Ved Pratap Vaidik, the senior journalist whose meeting with Hafiz Saeed has created a political storm, today said he doesn't regret meeting man who tops India's list of most wanted.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said that the Parliament will decide whether to allow a UN panel in the country to probe alleged human rights abuses during the final phase of the conflict with the LTTE.

A political poster war is playing out in Tamil Nadu over the Sri Lankan issue. Ironically, rival parties are groups are using the same face, of a 12-year-old boy, to score political points. Balachandran, son of LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, has emerged as the face of the student protest movement for the Sri Lankan Tamil cause.

Finally, a group that has been endlessly and mindlessly accused as the sole reason behind price rise, skyrocketing house rents and wayward lifestyle, has come out of plush air conditioned office cubicles to the streets to join hands and express solidarity with the students who made headlines for more than a week by protesting against the human righ...

Protests by college students in Tamil Nadu on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue continued today in a bid to mount pressure on India to vote against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council meet in Geneva later this month. Several political parties, including the Congress, have already asked the Centre to support the US-sponsored resolution against Sri La...

The DMK in Tamil Nadu is mounting pressure on the Centre to vote against Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The US is moving a motion against Sri Lanka on war crimes and rights violations against Tamil civilians during the final phase of the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

A "mafia gang" which wants to use Prabhakaran as a "brand name", collects funds from Tamils living around the world is operating at a major scale, said Karthic Manoharan, the son of Prabhakaran's elder brother Velupillai Manoharan.

Sri Lanka on Monday dismissed as a "joke" a top Tamil nationalist leader's claim that LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, who was killed in 2009 by the island nation's military, was still alive.

His remark came after Tamil Nationalist Movement leader Pazha Nedumaran claimed on Monday that Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader KS Alagiri is alive.

Fourteen years after the Sri Lankan government declared LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran dead, former politician in Tamil Nadu Pazha Nedumaran today claimed that he is alive and healthy, and that he will soon make a public appearance.

"It wasn't directed at any person dead or alive as our disclaimer mentions in the beginning of the film," Dulquer Salmaan's' statement read

Seven persons, including a former councillor, were arrested on Monday in Sri Lanka for planning to publicly commemorate killed LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran's 64th birth anniversary, police said.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said he and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were not happy after the terror group LTTE's chief Prabhakaran, who ordered the assassination of his father Rajiv Gandhi, was killed, as they felt "the violence inflicted upon him had impacted others, including his children".

With some Tamil nationalists in Sri Lanka believing that Velupillai Prabhakaran may still be alive, a Tamil National Alliance leader has said the LTTE supremo's name could be reported to the newly setup Office of the Missing Persons (OMP).

A relative of LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran has entered the fray for Sri Lanka's parliamentary election to be held in August 17 to challenge former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Ved Pratap Vaidik, the senior journalist whose meeting with Hafiz Saeed has created a political storm, today said he doesn't regret meeting man who tops India's list of most wanted.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said that the Parliament will decide whether to allow a UN panel in the country to probe alleged human rights abuses during the final phase of the conflict with the LTTE.

A political poster war is playing out in Tamil Nadu over the Sri Lankan issue. Ironically, rival parties are groups are using the same face, of a 12-year-old boy, to score political points. Balachandran, son of LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, has emerged as the face of the student protest movement for the Sri Lankan Tamil cause.

Finally, a group that has been endlessly and mindlessly accused as the sole reason behind price rise, skyrocketing house rents and wayward lifestyle, has come out of plush air conditioned office cubicles to the streets to join hands and express solidarity with the students who made headlines for more than a week by protesting against the human righ...

Protests by college students in Tamil Nadu on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue continued today in a bid to mount pressure on India to vote against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council meet in Geneva later this month. Several political parties, including the Congress, have already asked the Centre to support the US-sponsored resolution against Sri La...

The DMK in Tamil Nadu is mounting pressure on the Centre to vote against Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The US is moving a motion against Sri Lanka on war crimes and rights violations against Tamil civilians during the final phase of the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).